As a 22mph average cyclist just commuting with very little effort, I admit..

[Rocky]

The OP must be having a good laugh at our expense having successfully wound us all up!

I don’t think we were wound up. I think we all recognised the post for what it was and had a good laugh about it.

 

[Levo-Lon]

at that weight you’d probably need a 180-200 Watt average I’d think, if it was a flat route and there was no wind.

I'd expect plenty of wind at that weight...

 

[Sharky]

The OP must be having a good laugh at our expense having successfully wound us all up!

Don't think he has been back since he started this thread. Last seen four minutes after posting.
He'll probably post a reply after he has done a couple of laps of the marathon course later this morning.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Wind up @Globalti??

The OP probably cheats at golf and everything else.. Some funny replies

 

[mustang1]

He's on a new brand of epo that takes him to such giddy height of speed while drafting a guy on a MTB.

 

[Sharky]

Funny thing is though, that even though we are all scoffing at his claim to 22mph, should he repeat this in a pukka time trial, he wouldn't even finish in the top half of any 10 or 25. Top riders are approaching 30mph and good club riders easily beat 25mph and OAP's like myself can still better 20mph.

Still room for improvement - can do better.

 

[screenman]

Maybe he is 95 years old and still working carrying bricks or something like, that may explain the slow speeds.

 

[Kempstonian]

Maybe his 'commute' distance is only half a mile.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

Funny thing is though, that even though we are all scoffing at his claim to 22mph, should he repeat this in a pukka time trial, he wouldn't even finish in the top half of any 10 or 25. Top riders are approaching 30mph and good club riders easily beat 25mph and OAP's like myself can still better 20mph..

He's on a wind-up mission and he's full of shite. End of.
I bet even top riders wouldn't be able to average 22 mph over a commute unless they were breaking the law by jumping lights and ignoring road signs and right of way at junctions. There's a vast difference between riding on a clear, free-flowing route and having to deal with other road users and traffic signals. My average speed during urban utility rides almost always falls somewhere between 10.5 and 11.5 mph, depending if I'm riding a skip-salvage MTB on knobblys or my Pioneer hack on general purpose tyres.

 

[Blue Hills]

Agree - failure to appreciate how average speeds work on a bike is a sure sign of a novice - mostly the person is just naive/inexperienced - in this case clearly a twat.

 

[screenman]

Agree - failure to appreciate how average speeds work on a bike is a sure sign of a novice - mostly the person is just naive/inexperienced - in this case clearly a twat.

Maybe his speedo has auto stop and he is only counting his moving time.

 

[vickster]

Maybe his speedo has auto stop and he is only counting his moving time.

Which is normal when looking at average speed no, especially if traffic (the OP is in North London somewhere iirc)

 

[Blue Hills]

Idly wondering how you had formed an idea about where they are, i just realised that this is the semi literate bike washing bod. Enough said.

 

[Slick]

Counting moving time is certainly normal for me. The overwhelming dissatisfaction the first time a new device showed my actual average time was too much to stand.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

What happened, did you steal your grand fathers legs?